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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
apters 108 and 38 of the Code; incorporating the Virginia Lumber Company; transferring the Cacaphan and North Branch Turnpike to the county of Hampshire; to incorporate the Elk River Railroad Company; incorporating the Grassy Lick Turnpike Company; amending the charter of the Brown's Gap Turnpike Company; amending the charter of the Clarksburg and Wheeling Turnpike Company; making a subscription on the part of the State to the Roanoke Valley Railroad; authorizing the voluntary enslavement of Clara and her children; to raise a Provisional State Guard. Laid on the Table.--The bill authorizing the Central Railroad Company to construct a branch from Lexington to some eligible point on said load was debated and laid on the table. Adverse Report.--The Committee on Claims reported adversely to the petition of Thomas C. Bunting and others, to be released from a forfeited recognizance. Petitions, &c.--The following petitions, &c., were presented and referred; By Mr. Adams, the p
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward. (search)
Mayor's Court. --The cases brought before His Honor for adjudication yesterday were exceedingly frivolous. The following is an enumeration of them and the result of the Mayor's inquiries into each. Susannah Harris, free, no papers and drunk, 10 lashes; Patrick H. Connell, drunk and disorderly in the street, discharged; Armistead, slave of James Gray, no papers and after hours, 15 stripes; William, slave of George Fitzhugh, stealing wood from Daniel B. Currie, 15 stripes; James Weaver, stealing a horse from T. W. Steward, valued at $75, acquitted; Clara, slave of George W. Royster, stealing $3 from Lewis Linnaman, acquitted; King, slave of J. H. F. Mayo, stealing two umbrellas and one cane from Wm. P. Strider, 30 lashes; Lewis G. Close, suspicious person, continued in jail; L. J. Slater, assaulting Abraham Solomon, required to give $100 security for his good demeanor; Robert Lewis, charged with murder, acquitted.
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
ructed to inquire into the expediency of sending propositions, viz: By Mr. Coghill, of providing for the deposit of the revenue in some one of the Banks in the different divisions of the State; by the same, of repealing the law requiring the branch Banks to redeem their notes at the parent Banks, etc.; by Mr. Isbell, of authorizing the Governor to deposit muskets and ammunition at certain places, and under certain restrictions, etc., (designated in the resolutions;) by Mr. French, of a general stay law; by Mr. Neeson, of reporting bill 428 of last session; by Mr. Marshall, of providing for the voluntary enslavement of Clara and her children, in the county of Rappahannock; by Mr. Lynch, of creating a magazine or arsenal at or near Lynchburg; by Mr. August, of extending the boundaries of the city of Richmond. --Several resolutions to inquire into the expediency of refunding taxes were adopted, memorials, etc., presented, after which. On motion of Mr. Thomas, the Senate adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
, and others, asking that James V. Thomas be released from the payment of a fine. Resolutions, &c., Presented.--By Mr. Haymond, of allowing the sureties of P. P. Winston, late sheriff of Richmond city, longer time to pay their liability as such sureties, to the Commonwealth; by Mr. Gibson, of Jefferson, of paying Emory Edwards, for a negro man who was sentenced to be sold and transported by the County Court of Jefferson; by Mr. Brown, of reporting a bill for the voluntary enslavement of Clara, a free woman of color, and her children, in the county of Rappahannock; by Mr. Knotts, of withdrawing from the files of the last session, the petition from Gilmer and Braxton counties, praying that a portion of the county of Brax on be attached to the county of Gilmer; by Mr. Booker, of repealing the law requiring the publication of quarterly bank statements in the city papers, leaving so much of the law in force as requires them to be published by the banks in the towns and cities in which
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
larly, to one of their number whom they called Clara. She was a slight, fair girl of seventeen, anrs a servant entered with the message, "Miss. Clara's Masant for her, Mas Willie's come," and in an instant "Clara's Willie has come," was echoed from lip to lip of the mischievous group until poor Clara was crimsoned with confusion Sweet girl, it was the first time that Willie had been to the co return to his post, called at Mrs. -- to bid Clara farewell, and the poor girl, after his departue of the girls, with the intention of cheering Clara, began to tease her; and remarked, "Never mindany one's countenance as there suddenly was on Clara's. Her cheeks crimsoned, her eyes flashed, andbrow. During the days of the battle, poor Clara watched the conflict from the battery, and scaturned her to a marble statue. I was with Clara again on the happy day on which the Confederatalled to the battle for our rights I know that Clara will bid him go, even if in the struggle her h[3 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Strangely romantic story. (search)
a poor clergyman's daughter, against the wishes of his two sisters. The latter revenged themselves by falsely accusing Lady Fenwick of infidelity with a certain French Count, whom Sir John had introduced to her at Venice during the honeymoon. Lady Clara swooned at the charge, and her husband, completely carried away by passion, and convinced that the story told him by his sisters was true, ordered her and the boy to be expelled from the hall, and immediately hurried to the seaboard and embarketime, just as one of his aunts, seized with remorse, had made a death-bed acknowledgment of his mother's innocence, thus establishing his legitimacy. Sir John folded his long lost son to his heart; shedding tears of joy over him. The health of Lady Clara greatly failed after the departure of her son to America; and Capt. O'Neil took her to the South of France, in the hope of restoring it But she soon died, and not long afterwards the Captain was killed in a duel. By a will he bequeathed his pr
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Letter from the Gulf shore. (search)
claim for rendition, or for subsequent indemnity, set forth at length in a late issue of the Advertiser and Register, of this city, as I suppose that so desirable a journal is on your exchange list. Another schooner, the "Jessie Richards," loaded with cotton, grounded in running out of the harbor at night, and being in range of the blockaders next morning, was burned by her crew to prevent her falling into the hands of the enemy. The crew escaped to shore in their boats. The schooner "Clara" arrived safely from Havana in this port a few days before. Another schooner, the "Leone," accomplished no less a feat than running the blockade with a valuable cargo. A passenger by this schooner relates an incident of the perilous voyage from Havana, which smacks considerably of the romance of the seas. On the night before they approached the coast, when dark and ugly weather prevailed, a little stir was heard on deck which brought him up from the cabin. The schooner was rolling i
The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Gen. Van Dorn superceded. (search)
Ranaway--$100 Reward. --Ranaway from my farm, known as "Roseville," in Louisa county, on the night of the 9th instant, my negro woman, Lucinda, and child, Clara. whom I bought on the 6th. Lucinda is of medium size; of a copper color, and about 18 years of age. Clara is of a bright mulatto color, white hair, and blue eyes. The said negroes were hired to the overseer for Dr. Bickers, o Culpeper county, and Dr. Bickers himself hires the husband to the negro woman, who was raised by Miss about 18 years of age. Clara is of a bright mulatto color, white hair, and blue eyes. The said negroes were hired to the overseer for Dr. Bickers, o Culpeper county, and Dr. Bickers himself hires the husband to the negro woman, who was raised by Miss But'er G. Hume. near Raccoon Ford, Culpeper county. I will give $50 reward if the said negroes are taken, and secured to me, in Orange county, or $100 if taken out of the county, and secured to me at Orange C. H. oc 15-- 0 * Benj. Rose.
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Ranaway --$100 reward.--Ranaway from my farm, known as "Ruseville," in Louisa county, on the night of the 9th instant, my negro woman, Lucinda, and child. Clara, whom I bought on the 6th. Luccida is of medium size; of a copper color, and about 18 years of age. Clara is of a bright mulatto color, while hair, and blue eyes. The said negroes were hired to the overseer for or Bickers, of Culpeper county, and Dr. Bickers himself hired the husband to the negro woman who was raised by Miss Bu, and about 18 years of age. Clara is of a bright mulatto color, while hair, and blue eyes. The said negroes were hired to the overseer for or Bickers, of Culpeper county, and Dr. Bickers himself hired the husband to the negro woman who was raised by Miss Butler G. Hume near Raceson Ford, Culpeper county. I will give $50 reward if the said negroes are taken, and secured to me. in Orange county, or $100 if taken out of the county, and secured tome at Orange C. H. oc 15--10t* Benj. Rose.
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
Ranaway--$100 reward. --Ranaway from my farm known as "Roseville," in Louisa county, on the night of the 9th instant, my negro woman, Lucinda and child, Clara, whom I bought on the 6th. Lucinda is of medium size; of a copper color, and about 18 years of age. Clara is of a bright mulatto color, white hair and blue eyes. The said negroes were hired to the overseer for or Bickers, of Culpeper county, and Dr. Bickers himself hires the husband to the negro woman, who was raised by Miss Butlend about 18 years of age. Clara is of a bright mulatto color, white hair and blue eyes. The said negroes were hired to the overseer for or Bickers, of Culpeper county, and Dr. Bickers himself hires the husband to the negro woman, who was raised by Miss Butler G. Hume, near Raccoon Ford, Culpeper county. I will give $50 reward if the said negroes are taken, and secured to me, in Orange county, or $100 if taken out of the county. and secured to me at Orange C. H. oc 15--10t* Benj. Rose.
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